In 2022, Howells said if he can’t go into the dump, he’ll send Boston Dynamics robotic dogs to do the digging for him. That was part of a larger, $11 million business plan in which he proposed spending three years excavating the landfill to find his hard drive, while also turning the site into a mining facility. Newport did not go for that, either.

A computer engineer who believes his Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly £600m is buried in a landfill is now considering buying the entire site to find it. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

James Howells, a man from Wales, claims his KSh 90.3 billion ($700 million) Bitcoin fortune was accidentally dumped in a Newport landfill 12 years ago.

Man says His $700M bitcoin fortune was "buried in landfill," after his ex left it at the garbage dump. Now He’s Trying to buy the land to get it back

James Howells is considering buying the garbage dump he believes his $760million Bitcoin fortune was lost in after losing a legal battle with the local authority to be granted access to search the sit

Howells sued the city of Newport, Wales, in October 2024 for the right to search the landfill or pay him £495 million ($607 million) in compensation.

A Welsh landfill site where 8,000 Bitcoins are thought to be buried will be repurposed, at least partly, into a solar farm - but the man who lost the haul has other plans.

Man accidentally throws away a hard drive containing £620M in Bitcoin. After legal battles fail, he now aims to buy the landfill to search for it.

IT worker James Howells is considering buying a council owned tip in Wales where he thinks his Bitcoin fortune is buried after hard drive was mistakenly thrown

A computer engineer who lost £620m-worth of Bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried. James Howells, from Newport, claimed his ex-girlfriend mistakenly chucked out a hard drive containing 8,